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Your Model For Successful Demand Generation With Salesforce

You own Pardot. Is it doing everything you want it to?  If you said “no”, you’re not alone. Fifty-four percent of B2B marketers say they’re not getting the full benefits of their marketing automation investment.  The benefits of your marketing automation platform depend heavily on your strategy and ability to execute it. You need a buyer-centric demand generation strategy that…
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Make Change to Prospect Scores in Pardot Engagement Studio

One of my favorite features in Pardot is the Engagement Studio. While it is thought of most often as a tool to build email drip campaigns, it can do so much more. Since Pardot does not naturally enforce a ceiling for Prospect Score, if not managed, prospect scores can balloon into the thousands. At that point the score loses its…
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6 Ways to Use JavaScript to Enhance Your Pardot Forms

Refreshed and republished on September 3, 2021 This post was originally published on May 29, 2018 and has been revamped and updated for accuracy and comprehensiveness. Want to do something with your Pardot form that is not available in the editor? Try using JavaScript! Enhance your forms by using these 6 advanced Pardot form techniques. Learn how to add text…
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How to Use Salesforce Campaigns for Events

Events are high stakes marketing. You pump a significant amount of budget into them and involve many ‘moving parts’ on the day. Data management is one extra aspect you don’t want to be concerned about, which is why these Salesforce event management best practices are important to follow. Managing events with Salesforce centers around Campaigns. Use Campaigns for tracking event…
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The 4 Key Elements Needed for Effective Demand Generation

“Should we do demand generation or account-based marketing (ABM)?” It is a question I am often asked by customers and prospects alike. The answer I give is . . . yes. While I will not use this post to discuss how ABM fits into a demand generation strategy, I will contend that there are key elements that are needed for…
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Boost Pardot With These 12 Apps

Posted on August 31, 2021 in Pardot Pardot has many strengths – powerful email campaign automation with Engagement Studio, a close alignment with Sales Cloud – but for some organizations, there will come a point where extending your marketing automation to new channels and tactics is the way forward. There’s a new section on the Salesforce AppExchange dedicated to Pardot…
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Creating a Pardot Spam Identification Process with Prospect Updater

Spam and junk data is the bane of my Pardot Admin existence. Nothing irks me more than seeing sales was notified of a form fill from [email protected], or that [email protected] was added to an engagement program. However, spam is an inevitable part of any marketing automation platform and there is only so much we can do to prevent it from…
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Setting up Business Units – Video

Pardot Business Unit Video Configuring Pardot Business Units for the first time is a little scary. Watch this short, ten-minute video to see how it’s done. (I wish I had this when I set up my first Business Unit!) Setting up Business Units (0:00) Start with these steps before you configure your business units: Add the necessary Salesforce Profies Assign…
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How to Force Sync your Entire Pardot Database the Quick and Easy Way

One basic behavior of the Pardot/Salesforce databases is that the only way a record will sync is if there is a change to that record on one side or the other. Occasionally there will be times when you want to sync all your Pardot records to make sure everything is caught up between the two systems. This can happen when…
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Pardot and Qualified: The Dynamic Duo in Smart ABX

Conversational marketing has skyrocketed into 2021 for good reason. Conversational marketing is a customer-aligned and dialogue-driven approach to marketing. It has become the go-to strategy for driving customer engagement, improving customer experience, and growing revenue. At Invado Solutions, we use the Qualified platform. Qualified was created for Pardot and Salesforce customers by Pardot and Salesforce developers. This means the integration…
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Pardot Prospect Mailability: Actions for Your Database After Upgrading

Posted on August 25, 2021 in Pardot Maintaining Pardot database quality involves understanding which prospects are mailable and which are unmailable (and therefore, unlikely to be useful to your marketing efforts). Pardot made major changes to the way prospect mailability fields function in a recent release. These changes have opened up more automations options for these fields. After supporting customers…
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A mind-blowing One-Click Pardot Resubscribe Method for your Website

Sometimes ideas just come together. A random confluence of several concepts will crystallize into one brand new idea that you get so excited about you just can't wait to share it. This happened to me yesterday, and this post describes one of those things.I've written and spoken before about the Pardot prospect resubscribe feature and a trick for using HML…
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Free Add-ons for Pardot and Salesforce Campaign Management

Smart marketers aim to get the most out of their marketing automation platform – after all, most aren’t cheap. As you become a power user, you will begin to spot functionality gaps that stump productivity, which could be easily solved… Salesforce Labs is an incredible program inside Salesforce for employees to create apps and share them on the AppExchange for…
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What is a UTF-8 CSV and Why Should I Care?

UTF-8, or "Unicode Transformation Format, 8 Bit" is a marketing operations pro's best friend when it comes to data imports and exports. It refers to how a file's character data is encoded when moving files to and from Salesforce and Pardot. Read on to see why UTF-8 matters when it comes to CSV files.You might have noticed when exporting reports…
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Salesforce Winter ‘22 Release – Top 8 New Pardot Features

The Salesforce Winter ’22 preview release notes are here! New Pardot features will be arriving in September/October 2021 (check your specific dates here). Winter ‘22 is a bumper release for Salesforce generally, and there are plenty of juicy updates for Pardot, too – ooh yes, this is a big one. This release gives us more drag-and-drop capabilities (!), Slack connectivity,…
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